Sweet signals: Tracking crucial cell messengers for the first time

Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be ...

How a respiratory bacterium obtains essential lipids from the human body and targets fat-rich tissues

A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for ...
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Scientists watch drug molecules hit cell receptors in real time

Drug discovery is shifting from static snapshots to moving pictures. Instead of inferring how medicines work from end results ...
Scientific Research Publishing

A Pilot Study on How Microplastic Polluted Rainfall Infiltrates Commonly Eaten Leafy Vegetables ()

Smith, C.A. and Pramanik, S. (2026) A Pilot Study on How Microplastic Polluted Rainfall Infiltrates Commonly Eaten Leafy ...
eLife

Functionally coupled ion channels begin co-assembling at the start of their synthesis

BK and CaV1.3 channels interact early during biogenesis, assembling intracellularly before membrane localization, indicating coordinated processes for functional coupling.

Some of our cells are defying death. Scientists just discovered how.

Cells that are about to die send a signal to an executioner protein, but sometimes, those cells can fight back and regenerate ...